Spirit of the Ancestors-This maskette takes the form of a Tlingit shaman's headdress. Many contemporary Northwest Coast artists draw inspiration from both old and new objects from tribal traditions other than their own.

The paper is tan. The ink is orange, green, and brown.

Spirit of the Ancestors-Many Coast Salish artists have been inspired by old spindle whorls in museum collections. These flat wooden disks were used as flywheels on the spindle shaft, while spinning mountain goat wool. This design is taken directly from an old spindle whorl from the Emmons collection in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Ovular clay bowl with rounded, inward curving sides and a flat bottom. A bird's head protrudes from the rim at one end and a small tail from the other.

Round, woven cedar basket, straight sided. The basket is made of cedar slats wrapped with cedar root, with two intertwining rows of wrapped looping along the rim. The exterior is decorated with diagonal lines of triangles in light brown, red and dark brown.

Rectangular woven cedar basket with attached lid. Basket is made with cedar root wrapped around an under-structure of cedar slats. The exterior is decorated with red, light brown and dark brown imbrication in a large zigzag pattern. The lid is attached to the basket with two hide thongs on one of the longer sides. It is decorated with a pattern of imbricated squares in the same colour as that on the body. There are two hide ties attached to the front of the basket and the edge of the lid to tie it closed.

Round woven cedar basket with lid (part b). Basket wall is straight and flares slightly from bottom toward top. The exterior is decorated with four vertical lines of inverted triangles, three to a line. The rim is decorated with short horizontal lines of imbrication at intervals. The lid is coiled, with a large coiled knob at centre. It is decorated with ‘V’ shapes of black imbrication and has an inset rim that fits inside the basket.